From: Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to my Perl installation??? Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:28:28 +0000 Peter Matulis wrote: > I did an upgrade of my ports and I got some errors regarding Perl > modules. The system asked my to remove BSDPAN which I did. Later I > discovered I had other problems updating certain ports because of > missing Perl parts. This is part of the problem: > > $ perldoc BSDPAN > Can't locate File/Spec.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 . > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN/..) at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Spec/Functions.pm line 3. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Spec/Functions.pm line 3. > Compilation failed in require at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 10. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 10. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 9. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 9. > > How do I fix up my Perl installation? > > Thank you very much. > > Peter Eep. That's not good. Have you tried reinstalling perl? I'm curious because according to CPAN it appears that File::Spec is a part of the base Perl system: <http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/PathTools-3.24/lib/File/Spec.pm>.
Ok, I'm trying to reinstall now: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 make reinstall Peter _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"